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English is the official language of the United Kingdom, so their argument doesn't make sense.
Agreed. Some flag, US, Chinese, I don’t care, signifies “language” in the context of software. That is an easy, universal UI pattern.

I don’t see the need to upend this for some notion of offense or other type of PCness.
This seems silly for the reason they're doing it, in that a modern database should be able to handle characters with a little sanitation.

However, it does seem like it could be helpful when it comes to satnav applications to remove ambiguity. Google's going to autocorrect most of the time anyway, but this way, you're less likely to run into an issue where it takes you to Kings Landing in the wrong town because you didn't type King's Landing in the town you meant.

Sure, they tell you what town you're looking at, but I can't be the only one who's quickly typed in a destination and didn't take the time to double check and ended up driving to the wrong location for something. For some reason all of the hockey rinks near me have almost identical names...
Pretty sure it was the wire, because changing how it was aligned would affect what could pick up pretty dramatically.

And I should clarify… while it was certainly a cheap “system in a box”, it was a real multi component system with detachable speakers, etc. not a boombox or anything like that.
One issue with the existing Verus syntax is that it requires wrapping the whole code in a proc-macro. Other Rust proof/verification/DbC tools such as Creusot use attribute-based syntax instead, which generally seems to be a bit more lightweight and idiomatic for Rust. Hopefully it will become available in future Verus releases.
>The root of the problem is that windows/unix do things differently, but that doesn't change anyone's understanding of how a compiler/linker works.

Or that cpp ecosystem is so fragmented that you have X various compilers, IDEs, debuggers, build systems and package managers.

Insanity for anyone who worked in ecosystems like go, c#, rust
There's always ISO 639, which has three chances of being acceptable to end users: slim, fat, and none.

What flag would you suggest for http://als.wikipedia.org or http://pdc.wikipedia.org ?
In his interview for Time, Trump is isolationist even in APAC:

> America’s Asian allies, like its European ones, may be on their own under Trump. Taiwan’s Foreign Minister recently said aid to Ukraine was critical in deterring Xi from invading the island. Communist China’s leaders “have to understand that things like that can’t come easy,” Trump says, but he declines to say whether he would come to Taiwan’s defense.

> Trump is less cryptic on current U.S. troop deployments in Asia. If South Korea doesn’t pay more to support U.S. troops there to deter Kim Jong Un’s increasingly belligerent regime to the north, Trump suggests the U.S. could withdraw its forces. “We have 40,000 troops that are in a precarious position,” he tells TIME. (The number is actually 28,500.) “Which doesn’t make any sense. Why would we defend somebody? And we’re talking about a very wealthy country.”

https://time.com/6972021/donald-trump-2024-election-intervie...
Cool idea.... I would say the secret sauce in rust is Match + Enumerations and serde... :)
The headline is biased. It paints Russia under a bad light. “Due to ideological disagreements between two competing geopolitical blocks, and the ensuing conflicts, part of Northern Europe is currently subject to GSP jamming”. We should not allow the whole nation and people of Russia to be subject to this smear campaign. Even if you do not like them. Because it’s wrong. And you would not want one day the same to be done to you. Because by the way things are going, there is the potential for the “good guys” to end up being on the receiving side.
Denying Russia's Only Strategy for Success
Hmm, there are counter example Japanese flag on white background would signify nothing...
fusion research is underfounded while ITER is overfounded. I worked with it and it is clear that 1) it is too big of a step from the previous nuclear fusion reactor. 2) french regulatory agency is being way too strict 3) the procurement mechanism with in kind contribution has been a total failure.
It's not really a matter of accepting it or not - my eyesight is poor enough that I couldn't get a license if I tried.

I was also lucky enough to grow up in a place that provided generous benefits to people who couldn't see well enough to get a license - free public transport and 50% subsidised taxis. Having access to this mitigated the loss of economic opportunity significantly. Where I'm living now I don't get those benefits, but I'm in a position where I no longer need them.
Not from anybody else's standing point.
> You are being sold a computer

Videogame consoles are typically not marketed as general purpose computers.

Out of the box, the only thing I can do on my Nintendo Switch is play videogames.
Help I'm Stuck In A Street Sign Factory Avenue
> In 2017, in response to neo-Nazi interpretations of the film's themes, Carpenter further clarified that the film "is about yuppies and unrestrained capitalism" and "has nothing to do with Jewish control of the world".
Not a serious proposal: Google is pretty good at detecting when I have the keyboard in the wrong character set and providing me with results for what I would have typed; maybe there just needs to be a text box where you type "what the fuck?" in your own language and script, and the back end guesses it from there?
Object Structures in JavaScript Engines
The Dawn of Code Agents: Embracing the Future of Software Development
Ask HN: How soon can we have LLMs that read textbooks and answer queries?
Any specialist needs to read many high-level textbooks. How far are we from having a chatbot where we can simply drop the 1000 page textbook pdf and ask questions to the bot and get answers from the content preferably with references to appropriate page number? Can this already be done?
Linux phones sucks tho https://github.com/beerisgood/Mobile_Security#linux-phones-l...
That’s a design issue and a small and easily fixable one at that.
Why would they be fighting NZ? Someone has to do their scaffolding and run security at clubs on King's Cross.

I think you underestimate Australia significantly. They've geared up for a fight with nearby powers they (and NZ) have fought before. And if Aussie ever ends up in a stand-up fight against an invader, NZ will jump back in with them.

Admittedly, the ANZACs haven't met the nearby power in regular warfare, only irregular warfare. But each country now has the measure of the others and make plans accordingly.

Hence why Australia is very good in jungle environments.

And why NZ military maintains close ties with Singapore's military.
That future looks grim.
Google/Alphabet is a public company?….
I am interested in the business logic of paying to hosts. Say someone had netted sub 10 dollars for hosting their GPU on the platform. How do you make that payment? Business have to pay fixed plus variable transaction fees. So the small payments to a large pool of users should be quite involved specially with international payments.

Since the dawn of torrenting (and to some extent the the Silicon Valley TV show) many folks tried to launch a P2P resource pool platform. The challenge is that small amount of money being distributed to a large pool is challenging. Then there is the issue of stability. Do you penalize hoster who fail to provide a stable service?

Hosters must have "trust" in the system and platform can only afford to pay out only when the payable amount to hosters reach a certain threshold. Like you can't withdraw unless you have about $100 charged invoices.

And that is where I see the concept of crypto tokens appear because trust as a short term mechanism can be consoled via crypto tokens.

Engineering an service to take advantage of idle resources is a non-trivial task specially if the service is hooked up to doing something dedicated. For the hosters energy is not cheap, maintenance is a hassle and guranteeing stability is a pain.

I would love to learn how you would address these issues.
A company is building a giant compressed-air battery in the Australian outback
How does Bazel help reduce build times?
Yeah notably examples are given with their inverse functions. I’m pretty sure you don’t want that in a crypto hash ;)
I've never browsed on anything faster than Links with image support and JS support. Before CSS took of it was stil usable and web pages loaded INSTANTLY.

I don't I'll ever see anything like it again, despite 10-100x the computing power and 10-100x the bandwidth increases.
In my experience, most engineers and product managers assume that users are governed by some monolithic, absolute power with a single official way of doing things.

This is useful early on to deliver their MVP and grab their first batch of users.

However, their assumption quickly falls apart when a significant subset of those users live in some region with their own regulations. Gambling/betting, invoicing, and payment processing are just a few examples.

If I see a flag icon next to a language, it's not worrying by itself, but it's a red flag about how things work under the hood. It's telling me that the company does not go the extra mile to build a realistic mental model that works for all users. And eventually, the product's limitations will impact some feature that is mission critical for my business.
To give you an example of flags being offensive: most people who would ever choose Belarusian anywhere in any computer system will find the current Belarusian flag offensive because it represents the government that oppresses their culture and represses people who dare use the language in public.

Another example: a lot of people speak Russian outside of Russia. Many of them have nothing to do with Russia and never lived there, and even without the devastating war that Russia is currently waging against Ukraine they don't want to associate their language with Russia and its flag.
TIL the backstory of the folboat: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folding_kayak#Second_World_War
> Tactically, Australia will probably just lose any fight against anyone more scary than New Zealand or Papua New Guinea

Invading Australia isn't easy. It is a long way from anywhere. It is very big (12x the area of Ukraine). Much of the terrain is inhospitable. It has no land borders. Very different situation from Ukraine, where Russia is literally right next door – and not remote Siberia either, the western densely populated parts of Russia.

Yes, in the unlikely event that Australia embarked on a solo offensive expedition against another major country, it would probably lose. But it seems very unlikely that Australia would ever do that.
It's not just queries though - but CSV exports, etc. - every single system that ever handles this data needs to handle them.

Searching if users omit the apostrophes, etc.
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Perhaps one day the engineers and designers will make peace, the former conceding the need to be technically correct despite wildly successful UI, the latter adding bevels back to buttons.
I've been hosting my own pairdrop for a year now, very easy and quick to share a file between my smartphone and laptop without digging out a usb cable.
There is a good technical reason behind that. As far as I can see crossplay doesn't work well at all in the game right now. Mostly issues where inviting friends to play is broken. This isn't surprising when you do not have a common identity system to fallback on for all players.
Quite obviously you never interacted with any software which defaults to the language you can't read, despite having a support for the language you do understand.
Who is this guy anyway? Why should I care that he went to Yale and has opinions?
So much energy around the terminal and command line at the moment. Great to see.
I worked in the defence sector. There are ways around it. They are just not publicised. We had designated US territory for assembly in the UK so that we didn’t trip over ITAR.
Makes me wonder if this was the root cause of that software glitch that wrongly sent all those 1000s of postmasters to prison.
The keep interchanging “UK” and “England” so much I can’t tell if this article is really only about England or not.
There's a new message on spideroak.support: "The SpiderOak team continues to work on restoring service for our customers. We understand your frustration about the downtime and apologize for the inconvenience this creates. Once service is restored, we will send emails confirming this to all customers."
"Multimedia"? Over HF where one "cell" (using the WWAN nomenclature) may have several tens kbps of total (uplink and/or downlink) throughput at most? (see Shannon-Hartley theorem, which is distinct from Shannon-Nyquist sampling theorem) But for emails and the rest of proposed use, sure.

Also, OsmoDevCon is iirc invite-only, making linking to its schedule on a public forum mostly pointless (visit #osmocom on Libera for more info; disclaimer: I wasn't invited, either). Unless, of course, a recording would be added (which it probably will), but it's not true yet (as the event didn't took place yet?)
Redditor /u/SanderSo47 posts a weekly analysis called "Directors at the Box Office". Last week they covered John Carpenter:

https://www.reddit.com/r/boxoffice/comments/1cepji9/director...

I was surprised to find out that most of his movies were box office failures. Didn't matter to me, though. They weren't critically acclaimed, but they were a lot of fun.
This feels more like someone with a political axe to grind rather than a UX one. I travel full time and lived in 20 countries in the last year. Unfortunately many sites deliberately ignore Accept-Language headers and instead geolocate you and guess your language, localizing the entire site including the language selection menu, so this is a problem I am very familiar with and I constantly need to change the language on virtually every site I visit.

Ideally a site's language selection menu button includes a globe icon so you can figure out where need to click to change the language, and a flag for quick identification.
I have used a raspberry pi for running image classification CNN’s, it really depends on the model you are using. Edge IoT AI is making a lot of progress targeting running AI on resource constrained devices.

If you have access to the dataset you want you could train one yourself to fit on your target hardware. You could also look at FPGA solutions if you are comfortable working with those. Training locally might take some time but you could use google Codelab to train it.
I didn't like Obsidian's TeX support very much. Primarily because it is very difficult to get macros working (especially across files). There are some plugins that try to do it but when I tried they didn't work very well. And anyway the features I'm interested in are sharing, collaborative editing, and having a good way to present things that are typed up.
Obey
Consume
Go to sleep
Conform
Tell that to PostgreSQL
In the early 60s the Van Allen Belts were a source of concern for putting men in space. Then all of a sudden they weren't a concern any more. I never did figure out why they suddenly went off the radar (so to speak).
They will survey the entire sky every week or so. At the end, you can create a nice 60 fps timelapse of many objects in the southern sky.
Well, give customers a choice to pay extra for buyer protection.

Most transactions are repeat business and require no trust intermediary.
Ditch js altogether and just provide a minimal WASM interpreter. A dillo-compatible page could then ship with a js runtime as a shim.
This isn't an example of happenstance or an isolated actor in a vacuum upending "market forces". Private equity has been pumping hundreds of billions into markets across the nation to intentionally and artificially capture and inflate hard asset values.

Buildings don't move, and they're already expensive. Software that enables and enforces price fixing across markets might have exacerbated temporary inelasticity by local zoning, high reliance on import building materials, and restrictions on certain materials or construction, but the system wasn't built to handle a single company with $10T in assets buying up the nation, let alone an industry around it.

Blaming anyone with an economy smaller than a nation state just doesn't explain the scale and timing of the effects.

Why is this happening in communities in the rural South where there's plenty of room to grow? Who's buying up minority communities, inflating prices so that home owners can't afford the tax increases, and then buying those properties from under them and renting them back at a higher rate? It's not anyone you who they'll ever meet at a local town hall or whose home they can march up to to protest, that's for certain.
Trump made very isolationist noises before being elected in 2016 – but once he actually took power, he didn't follow through on the vast majority of them.

Once Trump was actually sitting in the White House, he was surrounded by countless advisors and lobbyists working overtime to talk him out of his crazier ideas, and in very many cases they succeeded.

Of course, it could be different this time around, if he wins in November. Then again, it could also very easily be largely the same as last time.
Not even this. It probably has a full-fledged browser pre-installed, making its classification as a general-purpose computer pretty obvious even for an average user, and far less "hackish" than otherwise.
Thank you! I didn't even knew that Show HN existed. It's exactly the right thing.

I'm currently comparing the latencies for recording (recording through a web browser vs recording through an android app) and seeing how much I can reduce the latencies. Rockr wants to be useful, and useful in audio engineering generally means "low-latency" (especially in a loopstation where audiotracks must align perfectly). So it's not sure at that point for me to either stay in the web browser or switch to a potential Rockr-app.

JQuery offers optimizations, but they are limited to the capabilities of web browsers of course.

Thanks for your input!
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> Only if the symbols make sense and there's a one-to-one relationship

A flag paired with a name, which the UI used to show, is as close to that as you can get. You can’t get exactly that because languages are not mathematical objects, they are organic, amorphous, ever-changing living things.
I agree in principle. But the Apple example is a bad one. Because Apple was showing country specific language variations. E.g. English (Canada) had a Canadian flag. Which for Canadians would be easy to spot as everyone knows perfectly well the flag of their country and it’ll immediately jump out due to pattern recognition. Thus better outcomes for the end user. Thus better UX.
I have a PC that is that old, still works fine. I have clients with production systems older than that. I have buildings with elevator controls that are from the 50s.

We all do tech here right? It’s a simple infra stack to store settings for a device and report on them once in a while.

No one is sitting at home and doomscrolling their ecobee thermostat for temperature updates.

I expect the cloud infra needed to support the thermostat to be so cheap at this point that it’s completely irrelevant. I expect that ecobee spend more money on coffee than the infra needed. Fact is I bet that a free aws account can service a significant portion of the demand.

I can connect up to 100 wyze cams to my account and store footage and remotely access them for the huge sum of 7$/mo.

You are telling me thermostat configs are harder to handle? Bullshit.
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I would make the case the consoles aren't essential for day to day life. They simply aren't general computing devices but have a very specific purpose. They've broaded somewhat to include more media features but few people are securing jobs or submitting government applications on their consoles.

It's the fact that modern living simply requires a phone is why the EU is so upset with Apple and Google putting up their garden walls.
good thing there is no rule against it then!
> will there be some other ill effect of choosing the wrong one

I recently tried to switch the locale of my work computer to en-GB, on a en-US distro and retaining the en-US keyboard layout.

The result is... unpleasant and some things (notably vSphere) just casually ignore both the user software settings (Firefox) and the OS settings.
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"pulling over first isn't entirely out of the question."

It seems it would be for most situations. If it's emergency info, everyone would need to hear it. Most roads either don't have a shoulder (rural, semi rural), or have too high of a volume for the shoulder to handle all the traffic (multilane highways, city streets). Even if the stops were temporary, you'd end up with massive traffic jams that would likely make any emergency worse.

But I don't think the lemon law allows for work around anyways - you bought a car that is (will be) required by law to have AM radio, and that feature does not function when driving the car.
I remember reading about a UK water privatization. The first act of the new board of directors was to raise their compensation by 85,000 UKP each.
Another discussion a couple of days ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40231332
A scalable approach to network reconstruction
How on Earth did you arrive at the conclusion "probably real" from that link?
> without involvement of any server

> bypassing the need for centralized servers

I don't follow this part... it's using a centralized server to serve the web app, which could easily serve JS code that steals confidential data right?
> The cost of deployment into the cloud is $0 at a scale that is unfathomable to any rack with the overhead being a near zero as well.

Obviously you haven’t seen my org’s cdk repos
If you want to attack Australia you don't bother trying to invade it which is borderline impossible.

You simply blockade any ships arriving here. And being an island that heavily depends on imports that's a problem.

Hence the need for long range submarines.
“Players shocked pikachu sony does something annoying.”

any older users here may remember the SOE (sony online entertainment) days. They’d do evil stuff that would make this look like a rookie move.
You are absolutely right. In a better society sociopaths would be pushed out of the market. Instead they are promoted or made billionaires.
It caches build artifacts in a blob store and just downloads them instead of compiling them where possible
> The question isn't "where are you from", but "which country speaks a language that is similar to how you speak"

Exactly. And that's the problem. There are countries where more than one language are officially spoken and differ (in the case of German enough that neither German nor Austrian German are usable, whereas German German is usable for Austrian German and vice versa) and these languages do not have their own flag - like Swiss German or Swiss Italian or Swiss French or do not have a flag in total, like (Swiss) Romansch.
And no, Switzerland isn't the only "problematic" country and Romansch isn't the only language without a flag.